Editor's notes: Don't judge Israel through a Western lens
Consider the disparity: How many Americans have served in the military? How many German children have experienced terrorist attacks against their religious or ethnic group?
A SOLDIER plays the violin from a tank near Gaza earlier this month. Before hastily labeling Israel an apartheid state or accusing it of 'ethnic cleansing,' consider its true nature: an intricate, vulnerable democracy.(photo credit: Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty Images)ByZVIKA KLEIN
